Prior to 1893 a Union Sunday School was maintained in Highland Park by various churches in New Brunswick. This was disbanded in 1893
  and the Reformed Sunday School was formed. From 1893 to 1895 the Baptists in the Park held cottage prayer meetings in the various
  homes, at which meetings a Sunday School for the Baptist children was often discussed. The matter was placed before the First Baptist
  Church of New Brunswick, Which decided that there was material for a Mission Sunday School.

  The school was organized with Mr. Henry B. Zimmerman as Superintendent, and for the first five years of it's existence held sessions in
  what had previously been a grocery store on Raritan Avenue, near First Avenue. The first session was held on the first Sunday of June,
  1895. Before the end of 1895 four members professed conversion and were baptized into the First Baptist Church of New Brunswick by
  the Pastor, the Rev. L. E. Wheeler. Altogether, during the first five years of the Sunday School, twenty members were baptized.

  In April, 1899, land was purchased on the Patterson farm and plans for a Chapel were prepared by Mr. August N. Whitlock and were
  adopted by the First Baptist Church of New Brunswick Trustees, who held the property in trust, in May, 1899. A subscription list was then
  started. The building was commenced in the fall of 1899 and finished in the spring of 1900 and dedicated in June, 1900.

  From a beginning of 33 members, the School grew rapidly and in 1911 the Chapel was enlarged. Formation of a Church in Highland Park
  was the ultimate aim of the Baptists. There was however, a natural reluctance upon the part of the members to withdraw their membership
  from their mother Church, which, in most cases, was the First Baptist Church of New Brunswick. Preaching services were held for many
  years by various supplies and resident Baptist ministers. In June, 1925, Rev. Fred H. McNair was called to preach at services that had
  been started by the young people.

  In October, 1925 it was decided the time was ripe to start a Baptist Church in Highland Park. The Chapel property, which had been held in
  trust by the First Baptist Church of New Brunswick, had already been deeded to the Sunday School.